The Register's Editorial: King's bid for clean water falls a bit short of the goal

11:19 PM,
Jul. 19, 2013

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The Register's Editorial

This just in: U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, has taken up with the environmentalists.

That's the only conclusion we can reach after reading his news release taking credit for getting an amendment into a House bill that bars the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from dumping silt into the Missouri River. Bravo, Congressman!

King said the Corps of Engineers has dumped millions of cubic yards of sediment back into the Missouri that had been dredged as part of a habitat recovery project. King is right that the Army shouldn't be dumping silt into the river, a practice he called "detrimental to both ...